HTC will release mobile VR glasses this year

HTC is coming this year with mobile VR glasses, which are different from, for example, the Gear VR from Samsung. It will not be a headset in which a telephone simply needs to be placed, but how the glasses will work is still unclear.

In any case, HTC’s mobile VR glasses will work with the HTC U Ultra smartphone. That’s what HTC CEO Chia-lin Chang told Cnet in an interview. It is not clear whether the headset also works in combination with other Android phones.

He says that the manufacturer will unfold its plans in the field of mobile VR in the coming months. The product should actually be for sale before the end of the year.

What exactly HTC has in store is not yet clear. It seems to be clear from Chang’s words that these are VR glasses that do not use a smartphone as a screen, but can be linked to a phone. The glasses may have their own screen and the smartphone is used to run applications.

The HTC U itself is also not in the list of smartphones that support Daydream, Google’s vr platform. The fact that the smartphone has an LCD instead of an OLED screen probably throws a spanner in the works: Google does not so much impose an OLED screen as a requirement, but does prescribe a display latency of 3ms or less, so that in practice only OLEDs are eligible. .